Dupont Circle residents are on edge after the fatal early morning shooting of a popular local waiter. Details as to what happened are becoming more clear.

The Post reports that Adrien Alstad, “who often broke into song” as he worked at Annie’s Paramount Steak House on 17th Street, was pronounced dead at George Washington University Hospital after being shot on the 1800 block of R Street at 2:20 a.m. on Monday.

Witnesses reported hearing Alstad saying to the shooter that he didn’t have any money. He was shot once in the chest.

From the Post:

Yesterday, as news of his death traveled through the neighborhood, flowers and balloons arrived at the restaurant in honor of him.

[Restaurant manager Leigh] Hendricks fought tears as she recalled how she often warned Alstad about being careful while walking home from work. She said he brushed off her concerns by saying, “Oh, don’t worry about me, babe. I’m going to walk right down the street, and if they want what little money I have, they can have it.”

On the night he was killed, Alstad walked a female bartender to her car, she said. Hendricks said that the bartender offered him a ride but that Alstad declined.